Every December, thousands of volunteers across North America head outdoors to count birds — helping scientists understand how our feathered neighbors are doing. The Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC) isn’t just a fun birding day — it’s the oldest and largest citizen science project in the world, and it depends entirely on volunteers like you.
Eastside Audubon is now accepting applications for two funding opportunities supporting local conservation and education efforts.
The Puget Sound Seabird Survey is looking for birders in King County to join this established Community Science program.
In the quiet of the woods the bubbling song of the Ruby-crowned Kinglet erupted, and the high trill of the Brown Creeper signaled its presence. The hormonal drive to breed had birds singing regardless of the weather.
For just a fleeting fifteen minutes around sunset on late summer and early fall evenings in Monroe, thousands of Vaux’s Swifts assemble above the historic brick chimney at Frank Wagner Elementary School and drop, one small, synchronized group at a time, into the brick shaft where they will spend the night.
How land is developed shapes which birds stay and which ones go. That is the finding of a new University of Washington study, published in Scientific Reports.
